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2 Sheets-Sheet 2. H. NDRICKSON. CA ND CAMP STOOL. No. 436,176.

Patented Sept. 9, 1890.

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COMBINED CANE AND CAMP-STOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 436,176, dated September 9, 1890.

Application filed March 22, 1890. Serial No. 344,970. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY HENDRICKSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Breckenridge, county of Caldwell, and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Cane and Camp-Stool, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to a combination of mechanical elements by which a cane may be converted into a camp-stool, or the reverse; and it consists of certain improvements of features which will be hereinafter clearly set forth.

My present invention is designed to cover certain new and useful improvements over the subj cot-matter disclosed in my patent, No. 389,810, dated September 18, 1888. The object of those improvements is to add strength and compactness to the device and to make it more useful, attractive, and practicable.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of my cane and camp-stool combined to be used as a cane. Fig. 2 is a perspective of the cane unfolded for a campstool. Fig. 3 is a central vertical section of Fig. 2; and Fig. 4 is an elevation of the cane with the collapsible top and sleeves and covers removed, showing also one of the legs spread out to indicate the relation of the parts. Fig. 5 shows a cross-section of one of the legs.

Referring to the letters on the drawings, A indicates the main stock, which is provided at its upper end with a spindle B, adapted to receive and rotatably carry the sleeve 0. Below this sleeve is secured a metal collar D, provided with notches a, and at its upper end with male screw-threads b. The sleeve 0 rests on its lower end against this collar, and is prevented from coming 0E by a disk or pin, or any other suitable device secured to the spindle B. To the upper end of the sleeve is pivotally secured upon the pivotring I) in slots 0 a series of radial arms E. These arms are adapted to be raised and lowered upon their pivoted ends, like the ribs of an umbrella. Toward the outer ends of these arms are pivotallysecured braces F, which are pivotally secured at their other ends to the slotted sliding collar G by a pivoted ring 6. The pivot-rings in both the sleeve and the sliding collar are preferablysunk into a groove, so as to be flush with the outside surface and take up as little space as possible. The upper part of the radial arms may be covered with canvas, either secured to the to take in the threads upon the collar D when w it has been slipped over the arms E and their braces. Then by screwing it up it will be securely fastened to the stock, will form a neat and compact cover, and will afford when cap I has been put on it a suitable handle for the stick. This constitutes thewhole of the up-.

per part of the cane, including that which composes the collapsible seat when the cane has been converted into a camp-stool. Upon the other end of the stock A are provided legs .1, preferably three in number, which bundle together, as shown in Fig. 1,to form a round piece that constitutes in form and size a continuation of the stock A.

L indicates a pivot-ring, to which are pivoted at one end radial Spreaders K, which are pivoted at the other end, respectively, to the legs J a little below their upper end. M indicates slits in the lower part of the stock A and upper partof the legs J respectively, which receive the spreaders when the legs are bundled together and allow them to lie flush with the surrounding surface. The lower end of each of the legs J is provided witha metal tip N, which forms a portion of a cylinder. Each of these tips is provided at its lower end with a hole 0, and the upper parts of the whole are uniformly externally screwthreaded, so that when bundled together the internally-screw-threaded ferrule P may be screwed upon them and secure them together. The end of the stock A is preferably provided with a metal tip Q, which is externally screwthreaded to carry the ferrule P when that has been removed from the end of the stick. The stock A, when the camp-stool is used, constitutes the central and main support or leg for the seat. By using the metal tip, as

above described, the end of the stock is pro tected from wear and prevented from becoming soiled when the stool is set upon soft earth, for instance.

R indicates a sliding ring surrounding the collar D, and S indicates pins projecting outwardly within the notches a. T indicates a sliding band adapted to slip over the lower end of the stock A and the upper end of the legs J when they are closed and hold the parts in position, besides affording a neat cover for the spreaders and the joint between the stock and the legs and also strengthening the cane at that part.

of my invention.

The operation of my device is as follows: Suppose that it is closed up, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings. I then first slip up the band T. Next I remove the cap from the cover H, and having unscrewed the cover from the collar D, I slip it down over the band T. Then the radial arms E may be readily opened out to form a seat. Next I unscrew the ferrule P from the ends of the legs and replace it for convenience of carrying upon the end of the stock A. Then I turn up the ends of the legs and insert their tips underneath the ring R and pass the pins S through the holes in the tips. The ring R may then he slipped down over the ends of the tips, and thus secured firmly in place. This affords a simple and convenient contrivance for securing the ends of the legs to the stock to form the stool; but any desirable means for uniting the two may be employed without departing from the scope By this operation I will have converted the cane into a camp-stool of very rigid and firm construction, and will have provided means for carrying all the parts belonging to the cane upon the stool, thereby avoiding the liability of losing or misplacing them.

WVhat I claim is 1. In a convertible cane and camp-stool, the combination,with the stock A, extending upward to form the spindle B, of the collar D, fixed to the stock, the sleeve 0, rotatable upon the spindle, the radial arms E, pivoted to the sleeve 0, the sliding collar G, surrounding the sleeve 0 and limited in its downward movement by the collar D, and braces F, connecting the sliding collar G and the radial arms I E, substantially as set forth.

2. In a convertible cane and camp-stool, the combination, with the stock A, extending upward to form a spindle B, of the collar D,

fixed to the stock, the sleeve 0, rotatable upon A, of legs J, which folded together constitute an extension of the stock, the spreaders K, pivotally secured to the stock and to the reversible legs, and slits in the lower end of the stock and the ends of the legs, respectively, these slits being adapted to receive the spreaders K when the legs are folded together, substantially as set forth.

4:. In a convertible cane and camp-stool provided at one end with a collapsible seat and at the other end with reversible legs J,

adapted to be folded together in the manner described, the combination, with the stock and seat, of a sliding cover I-I, fitting over the band Tupon the stock A, when the device is converted into a camp-stool, substantially as set forth.

5. In a convertible cane and camp-stool, the combination, with the stock A, carrying upon its upper part a seat, of legs J, detachably pivoted to the stock so as to be reversible, the spreaders K, pivoted to the legs and to the stock, the collar D, the tips N, having the holes 0, the pins on, and the sliding ring R, substantially as set forth.

6. In a convertible cane and camp-stool, the stock A, constituting the upper part of a cane, the reversible legs J, constituting when folded the lower part of the cane, in combination with a collapsible seat connected to the upper part of the stock, which,.when the legs are reversed, spread, and fastened to the and to the legs and adapted to fold. together with the legs to form an extension of thestoek for a cane, substantially as set forth.

In testimony of all which I have hereunto subscribed my name.

HENRY I-IENDRI-CKSON. IVitnesses:

J. R. PEOK, J. T. ALEXANDER. 

